A tatami tiling is a tiling of 1x1 squares and 1x2 rectangles such that no four tiles meet at any point.
Find a tatami tiling of a 5x5 square such that there are five 1x1 tiles, five horizontal 1x2 tiles, and five vertical 2x1 tiles.
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being a truncation of an infinite tiling, where the 1x1 tiles are really just half of 1x2 tiles on that infinite tiling.
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Posted by Charlie
on 2016-03-29 10:27:33 |
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